I haven't had many crashes on ps3, but still happens once a week, and the framerate drops during every levolution is a joke, wish they would just disable it... also as someone previously mentioned, hit detection is terrible but I think it's due to server lag... I have unloaded 3 shots to the face with shotgun and no damage... plus you get the can't move, can't do anything glitch where you are just not connected to the server at all... there you go, that's my "minor" list of ps3 problems... pretty bad when that is considered minor.

yeah.. it REALLY is way overblown (especially with clowns saying "unplayable")... it may have started out kinda shaky, but since the recent patches, its been MUCH MUCH better... you have to remember, that just as you have die-hard CoD haters on N4G, that have something negative to say at every turn, its the same way with the BF haters.. i'm a LVL70 now on BF4 (and i can atleast speak for the XB1 consoles), but the experience has been ALOT better since the recent release of fixes..

Clearly not everyone is having issues, but an extremely overwhelming majority of people are having issues. So just because you aren't don't make out the problems don't exist. It is actually completely unplayable for some people! I haven't had many issues (PC) myself but I have had more than I would be expecting! Plus my fiend who has it on Xbone couldn't get into any matches for days there! So stfu it very much is unplayable for some people.

It isn't overblown. I haven't even had the worst of problems and I'm still fed up with it. I play on PC and I have a very solid setup that handles the game at 100+ FPS on Ultra. The problem is, I have crashed in the campaign every time I've tried to play it longer than 15 minutes, and multiplayer is a crapshoot of when I'll get dc'd and lose my progress.

Also, just because you don't have the same problems doesn't mean others do not.

Overblown? LOLOLOL. Right..... I bet you only play 1 or 2 rounds every once in a while. Any one who plays a lot knows the game STILL crashes every hour or so. And that after like 4 patches on consoles. Hell before the patches, it was nearly unplayable.

I'm sorry to break the news to you but every game I play on conquest along with my friends crash. I'm not really in the mood to play domination because the maps are laid out poorly along with all the other modes. The point of conquest is that its there bread and butter mode which everyone enjoys and if you cant play a full game with ought it crashing then this means doom to all BF fans. Don't get me started with the shitty net coding as well. The hit markers are a joke, putting in a full clip into someones back and them turning around to only shoot me with 2 bullets and I die and he still has %100 health is called terrible net coding. this tells me how bad this game has become. The more they patch it the worst it gets for us. So please don't go around and try to downplay how bad this game is. Its called REFUND or DO NOT BUY.

Why do I see effing twats like you defending this game every time this is brought up? This game is pure shit, and I am stuck with it. These issues are even more widespread then is being let on. I feel as if I have been robbed.

i think the people that are complaining have legitimate reasons, and the people that aren't complaining either choose to ignore the problems, have learned to deal with them, or just don't really care that much. the game obviously has problems, because the developers themselves have said they are trying to fix them, and have an "all hands on deck" attitude about it. you don't give that sort of ultimatum for minor issues.

Some people are saying Bf4 is unplayable, which I don't think is the case for everyone across every platform, but I can tell you from my experiece with the game on ps3, its not "unplayable", per se, but there are enough issues that detract from what could've been a far more enjoyable experience for online FPS fans.

I've not had major issues being kicked from servers or "crashing" (though it's happened a few times), but I do experience quite a bit of lag/rubber banding, Often when I spawn in a vehichle, all sound dissapears exept for the AI radio chatter, and overall, depending on my connection textures load rediculously slow, to the point where if I'm using iron sights on a weapon such as the M416, I cant even aim-down-sights, because the iron sights havent fully texture loaded, so I have basically a black square which completely obscures my vision when I aim with ironsights.

On top of that, my singleplayer campaign WILL. NOT. SAVE. It's to the point where I'm done trying.. it seemed pretty lame anyway, so I probably won't miss much. But still... I paid full price for the game, so I want to be able to go through the campaing at least

I would say not since EA has ordered Dice to halt work on their Star Wars and other games to fix issues with BF 4. They would not delay games and essentially spend money if there was not a need for it. PC version is a mess.

I play it on X1 and it is SLOWLY coming along with patches. Although it's better, you still crash to the dashboard (mainly Conquest) which is frustrating especially since some rounds go over an hour-you lose EVERYTHING you gained in the match. I don't play the campaign, but I've heard reports of it losing your data and starting again. ALSO-Premium has been troublesome for some not being able to download the China Rising maps. Overall, this game is awesome when it works. If you get it, I'd play Rush, TDM or obliteration, this way if it crashes, you won't lose out on much. Conquest is the mode with most crashes.

ps4 got it 11/15/13.. (i only play multiplayer) was rough for about a week could only do deathmatch and would kick me back to dash every 2 or so hours.... played this weekend not one crash and all servers working fine with zero multiplayer issues to report(i played conquest, conquest large,rush and deathmatch...) and for some saying i keep getting zero players in the servers... click right thumbstick and change your search criteria like 1-5 avail slots etc... its not rocket surgery.

@andibandit Luckily i had Assasins Creed Killzone and Need For Speed Rivals.. and in noway am I condoning this shotgun release of a game before its finished. i have logged 23 hours and total have prolly been kicked 10 times and lost stats from one game.. but i put in about 10 hours this weekend with no issue (some rubberbanding but that was solved by going onto another server) AGAIN i dont condone what ea/dice did im just saying for the ps4 its not game breaking and seems to be getting better with every patch. for me anyway..

it's fine on PS4 except the 64 player conquest mode (definitely not 60 fps, with very noticeable slow downs), and I wouldn't play the campaign unless you plan to finish it in one sitting (save gets wiped)

I play it on PS4. It's not broken at all. Although let me say that I only play multiplayer.

It crashes me out of rooms about once every 10-15 matches. That's not good, but it's not at all unplayable. Most of the time I still get the credit for the stats that I had accumulated before I crashed out. One time I even got notice that I had won a match after I crashed out of it and had restarted the game and was looking for another server to join.

While the latest patch seem to have fixed a few of my issues, I still do get randomly dropped from servers and sometimes get sent back to the dashboard. When I do get sent back to the dashboard, I reload BF and it starts loading me back into the server I was in before the crash (Don't know if this is by design, or just a glitch.)

Before the patch I wanted to snap the disc in half and send it back to EA. I couldn't play any domination servers for more than 5 minutes. I'd get dropped or the game would crash to dashboard, I would rubberband like crazy, sometimes the lag was so bad that if I was in a jet and have a heavy lag spike, it would look like I'm still in the game, and then it would all just click back together and I'd be nose diving into the ground.

The last month or so had been very annoying with this game, though when it works, it's great.

Its broken. Constant crashing,net coding creates terrible hit detection ect. Go on twitch tv and watch those playing on next gen. I do stream and everyone who watches me has seen the constant crashing that goes with this game. The worst part is that I have about 38 games that have crashed and kept my K/D but not my points. I don't care about my K/D at all I just like winning and when you are winning and the game crashes on a few of us this changes the outcome of the game every time. The game is straight up broken either you like to hear it or not and double xp means nothing when the game doesn't work.

- Lost my SP once. - For the first 2-3 weeks, MP quit maybe once an hour. - I stopped playing after a week due to crashes, only checking in once or twice after that. I finally booted up again a week ago to put some hours in and have had maybe 4 crashes, two on the same level. Compared to how things were, I call that good so am playing a lot now. - Can't speak to the other smaller issues, but I can believe them based on my experience (e.g. hit detection, sound problems, etc.)

So the problem is with EA then? Eh, I think that's only partially true. EA is bad, and I do believe that they negatively impact their games, but this isn't all EA. There are many studios out there that have no problems making a competent, polished, working FPS in 2 years. Dice consistently releases games that feel like they're in alpha. They're always unfinished. I have a hard time believing that's solely the publishers fault.

EA decides when the game releases though. If EA thought that BF4 wasn't ready, they should have let DICE continue to work on it.

The dev basically does what the publisher wants. The publishers have far too much power over the devs now. Almost any problems a game has nowadays (rushed, incomplete, on-disc dlc, etc) can all be blamed on the pubs.

It could even be SONY and Microsoft requesting an early release to have 3rd party games at launch.

Both Microsoft and SONY tests games before release, and stop games that doesn't cut it - why didn't they stop BF4? - did not crash for them? - crashed, but releasing was more important for them as well

My PS3 game has worked great, I have never seen a crash.

The fact that it works even om PS4 and XBox1 for some might be a clue that it did not crash (much) during tests. - network latency induced crashes?

I know EA doesn't like spending money on patching game bugs. Sometimes, if the game isn't popular enough EA will outright refuse to pay to find a fix like with the Crysis 2 grain bug, despite the devs acknowledging the problem.

EA funds the games. EA decides when it releases and how they market it.

We have all seen what a quality DICE release looks like. Do we really think that they aren't a proper-enough developer to be able to release a stable game? It's obvious where the issue lies and it's EA releasing what is an unfinished game.

Hence, publisher. Regardless it is Dice's job to make a stable game. Not EA's. Dice knows the time frame, and releases a projection to it's publisher EA of a time frame for release. Clearly that time frame was set to be in proximity to the release of next gen consoles, and too go head to head with call of duty a game dice has been chasing to beat for years.

My friend and I have just had to learn to "cope" with all the issues in order for it to be "playable" for us, outside of the connection, lag, problems.

- Hit detection... having to lead on a target WALKING slowly ten feet in front of you (automatic weapons to boot, short range)?! Or shooting stationary targets in the brain multiple times and yeah, Nada... - Animation/other LAG, people kill you EVERYTIME before the weapon or their character actually animates the weapon firing or pulling out a gun or even LOOKING in your direction - Attempting to pick up "map weapons" gets you into that drop/pickup/drop loop unless you perform a stupid "fix" maneuver to bypass it - And I forget whatever stupid reason they had for changing getting in and out of vehicles to SQUARE... idiots - Knife countering needs to be altered... I don't waste time on frontals obviously anymore, but it's just dumb what they've done with it - Terrain traversal is not smooth at all for vehicles or infantry... much less so than Battlefield 3... get stuck on SOOOO much crap. Poor job there, all probably comes down to the rush job... lots of little visually "unfinished" places in maps, see through the terrain, objects not meeting up with the ground or other surfaces correctly. - light machine gun "scope wiggle..." just, no - Snipers need MUCH extended breath hold... starting to feel like freaking CALL OF DUTY! - map borders feel way too tight to the playable areas - need to ditch the L1 R1 L2 R2 class/weapon set up system... X and Circle and D-Pad and add custom class load-outs for Christ sake! - List goes on...

DICE knew of the 2 year dev window and they knew would be rushing the game from the get-go. They should of done less features in the game to have a less work load so they could spend more time testing the game thoroughly.

I gave up on this game after the nov 13 (15?) update and decided I would wait to play it again after a month or two. I had to sell my GPU a week or two ago and am getting a new one sometime this week. I hope the problems are not too bad when I try it again because I have yet to get my $60 worth.

I posted this under another article but I'm posting make people aware of the possibility of getting a refund. I just called EA again about 20 minutes ago. There was nothing they could do for a refund because they didn't sell me the game. But they did tell me that I can send them my physical copy and they would send me an unopened copy so that it would be easier to return it to GameStop.

I called Microsoft immediately after hanging up with EA. I told them that I was upset with Microsoft because they had told me in another conversation that they could not refund the game or the premium membership:

1. Because it was a digital copy. 2. That I would still have the license for the game even after the refund. 3. EA made a statement that they are the sole reason for the game being broken, so they have no obligation to refund anything. 4. EA makes the game, they received my money even though I bought it through the Xbox Store. Xbox doesn't make a profit from digital third party games sold through their store.

The representative from Microsoft, that I spoke with today, was very polite and professional. He said "Here's what I can do for you today. I can refund you the money for Battlefield 4 and you can keep your premium membership for when you decide to purchase Battlefield 4 later on. " I asked if I could get a refund for the premium as well and he said yes. "

I now have $119.24 on my Microsoft account. I also no longer have the license for Battlefield 4. I tried to play Battlefield 4 after I hung up with them and it asks if I am the owner of this game. When I view the game in the store, it no longer says installed but buy $59.99 instead. So, they can return digital purchases after all.

I have the PC and PS4 versions, and both have noticeable problems. The graphics of the PS4 version look quite nice, and the game runs pretty smooth most of the time for me. However, I get weird crashes in the campaign of all things, and there are still some issues with multiplayer. I can't believe there isn't a better way to play with friends. I might not end up on the same team, let along same squad.

My experiences with the PC version are primarily related to the microstutter, and I'm just going to put this version on hold for now until Nvidia/ DICE get this fixed. I had to do the same with Tomb Raider, which I recently came back to and completed, as it was a trainwreck at launch. Runs pretty smooth now, even with the "next gen hair" (LOL). It would be nice if they finished the damn game before charging what they do.

It has to be more to do with the servers themselves and/or the individuals internet connection. If it was purely game code then shouldn't everyone get the same problems?? I for one have had very little issues. I have had it error out to the menu twice but that is only when pushing the home button, and the rubber banding/micro stutter is much better since the last patch. It was only a minor annoyance in the first place. In my opinion I think your internet speed plays a lot into these MP games and if you are at the bare minimum there are bound to be issues. I mean how can hit detection be accurate if your connection is slow? no way around for that.

Just go independent? I think you are underestimating the type of undertaking that would be. Just make something like Frostbite and Battlefield games on all platforms on your own? We're talking truckloads full of money in terms of investment. Many truckloads.

finally the cats out the bag. ''An anonymous QA tester corroborated this idea just last month, stating the Swedish developer was being forced to rush the game in order to beat Call of Duty to market.''

I have had very few issues with BF4 on PS4. I've been kicked randomly once or twice. But online issues are minimal.

They really need to address the broken water physics (you seem to spend more time underwater than on it in big swells) and the few times in SP you are on the water it handles perfectly so what gives.

Also some minor hit detection issues in MP but all in all I think it's about a buggy as BF3 was at the same point in its life cycle.

As long as they are hard at work tweaking and improving then I'm satisfied.

My biggest issue is that which I had with BF3 too. DLC should be included as part of the original cost of purchase. Paying another $70AU for premium is major BS. It basically makes BF a $170AU game because honestly your missing out on a lot if you don't purchase the DLC's.